Richard Heinberg on "Peak Everything"
Maria Gilardin of TUC Radio interviewed author and teacher Richard Heinberg earlier this month. The interview brings up the intriguing history of the limits to growth movement, what other energy sources and raw material are close to peak, the need to reform the financial system and the growth imperative built into policy. Heinberg's work inspired the transition town movement - and he gives a brief survey of the recent successes.
Richard Heinberg's 2007 book Peak Everything, Waking Up to the Century of Declines is a classic text on the limits of natural resources. Heinberg is the author of eight other books, including The Party’s Over, and Blackout, Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis. He is currently Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building more resilient, sustainable, and equitable communities. His appearance in the movies: The End of Suburbia and Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour popularized and demystified the concept of peak oil and so many other diminishing resources.